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By Ben Fried

8:52 AM EDT on March 22, 2018

Read Joe Lhota’s Lips: Congestion Pricing Won’t Pass This Year. Or Maybe It Will. Who Knows? (Politico)
Instead of Raising Fares, MTA Board Would Like Revenue From Congestion Pricing (AMNY, News)
NYC’s Business-Labor-Enviro Coalition Making One Last Push for Pricing in Albany (News)
Daily News: Cuomo Needs to Twist Arms for Congestion Pricing, Carl Heastie Needs to Speak Up
Federal Spending Deal May Fund ~5% of Gateway Tunnel Estimate (Politico, WNYC)
Gateway Tunnel Costs 4-5 Times as Much as It Should (CityLab)
Post: Cuomo Value Capture Plan a “Thuggish Assault on Home Rule” in NYC
MTA Replaces Wooden Safety Rail With Fiberglass, Too Late for St. Clair Richards Stephens (Post, AMNY)
Cab Driver and Medallion Owner Nicanor Ochisor Hangs Himself, Citing Financial Ruin (Post)
People You Share the Streets With (News)

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Ben Fried

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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